Finding aid for the L. Garth Huxtable papers, 1913-2012
Finding aid prepared by Laura Schroffel
Descriptive Summary
Title: L. Garth Huxtable papers,
Date (inclusive): 1913-2012
Number: 2013.M.2
Creator/Collector:
Huxtable, L. Garth
Physical Description:
109.5 linear feet
(75 boxes, 24 flatfile folders, 6 rolls)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The papers of the industrial designer L. Garth Huxtable (1911-1989), spans his career from the 1930s to the 1970s. This collection
contains Huxtable's design work including drawings, models and tools that comprise his decades-long contribution to American
product design.
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Biographical/Historical Note
The industrial designer L. Garth Huxtable (1911-1989) was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He graduated from the Massachusetts
School of Art in 1933 with a degree in design. After working in several advertising art studios in New York City at the beginning
of his career, Huxtable was hired in 1934 as a design assistant in the office of Norman Bel Geddes. Following his work at
Norman Bel Geddes & Company, Huxtable went on to work for the offices of several other notable designers including Egmont
Arens, Albert Kahn, Benjamin Webster and Henry Dreyfuss. Between 1941 and 1952 Huxtable worked for two large institutional
planning offices, first as assistant architectural design supervisor for Sperry Gyroscope, planning their new plant in Nassau,
NY, and then as research designer at the United Nations headquarters.
Huxtable married Ada Louise Landman in 1942. In 1946 he was accepted into the Society of Industrial Designers, a new and prestigious
professional association based in New York. By 1948 he established his independent office, L. Garth Huxtable Industrial Design,
quickly earning contracts with the Millers Falls Company and Restaurant Associates. Ada Louise Huxtable, who worked as the
architecture critic for the
New York Times, also collaborated with her husband on projects, including the Four Seasons Restaurant service and the Stamp Village model
town.
Throughout his career Huxtable worked on a wide variety of project types. However, his most extensive work was with designing
tools, cookware, and tableware. For Huxtable, a well-designed product should be simple and direct in concept, with form, function,
and construction being soundly integrated. This approach to design was recognized at the Triennale di Milano, where Huxtable
twice won the silver award, and subsequently by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which acquired 18 items from the Four
Seasons Restaurant service. Patents were awarded for several Huxtable designs, including the Millers Falls Plane-R-File and
the United States Army Quartermasters Corps ski harness release. Huxtable closed his office in 1980.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers. Access is restricted to Box 60 which contains deteriorated black-and-white negatives.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
L. Garth Huxtable papers, 1913-2012, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2013.M.2
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2013m2
Acquisition Information
Gift of Ada Louise Huxtable and L. Garth Huxtable. Acquired in 2013.
Processing History
Laura Schroffel processed and cataloged the collection under the supervision of Ann Harrison in 2014.
Related Material
The Getty Research Library also holds the Ada Louise Huxtable papers 1859-2013, Special Collection accession no. 2013.M.9.
Scope and Content of Collection
The L. Garth Huxtable papers document the career of the industrial designer beginning in the 1930s, when American awareness
of industrial design as a profession increasingly captured public attention. Series I represents Huxtable's extensive contribution
to industrial design during this period of flourishing creativity. His design process is well articulated in this series,
progressing from product analysis and sketches to drawings and plans and finally to models and product samples. While Series
I includes early school work and projects from prominent design offices where Huxtable was an assistant, the bulk of the documentation
dates from after Huxtable established his own firm in 1948. This series contains Huxtable's notable long-term project work
with the Millers Falls Tool company from 1948 and his Four Seasons Restaurant service designs from 1958.
Huxtable's resource materials found in Series II contain drafting tools including rulers, French curves, stencils, templates,
calipers, and technical guides. This series also contains typography guides that were integral to the design and arrangement
of printed text. Color sample books and subject files, which Huxtable compiled on various themes, are also included in this
series.
Series III comprises Huxtable's general professional papers including work records, writings, and portfolio materials, as
well as publicity clippings, and negatives that he used for promotional one-sheets. Personal papers include diaries, a sketchbook,
his paintings and photographs. General personal and business correspondence is also found in this series.
The collection contains sketches, drawings, blueprints, renderings, black and white photographs and negatives, color slides
and photographs, proofs, models and sample products. Documentation contains materials as large as 22" x 28"; large drawings
are up to 36" x 48" and rolled drawings are larger than 36" x 48". Proofs are trial sheets of printed text and images. Renderings
are hand-drawings for use in presentations to represent the full conception of a project and typically containing color, shadowing,
and textures. Models are three-dimensional scaled representations used as working studies. Sample products are either actual
products as they were sold in the marketplace, or final working samples intended for further mass production.
Arrangement
Organized in three series:
Series I. Project files, 1928-2012;
Series II. Resource materials, 1913-1976, undated;
Series III. Miscellaneous professional and personal papers, 1917-2002.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
Four Seasons (Restaurant)
Millers Falls Company
Norman Bel Geddes & Company
Subjects - Topics
Industrial design
Genres and Forms of Material
Black-and-white negatives--20th century
Black-and-white photographs
Blueprints (reprographic copies)
Color photographs
Color slides--20th century
Design drawings
Drawing instruments
Drawings (visual works)
Gelatin silver prints--20th century
Models (representations)
Paintings
Technical drawings
Contributors
Huxtable, Ada Louise
Huxtable, L. Garth
Series I.
Project files,
1928-2012, undated
Physical Description:
99.2 linear feet
(58 boxes, 23 flatfile folders, 6 rolls)
Scope and Content Note
This series contains the industrial design work from Huxtable's professional oeuvre including blueprints, drawings, sketches,
renderings, photographs, models and product samples. His design process is well articulated in this series, progressing from
product analysis and sketches to drawings and plans and finally models and product samples. Papers include correspondence,
invoices and publicity materials such as clippings and catalogs. The bulk of the documentation included in this series dates
from after Huxtable established his own firm in 1948. The Four Seasons materials contain documentation dating after Huxtable
closed his office in 1980. It is often unclear if Huxtable was the principal designer for a project, and it is also not always
certain whether specific designs were actually manufactured.
Arrangement note
The series is arranged in chronological order. Some items are included with projects that are possibly related to different
projects. Huxtable's clients are listed when identified.
Boxes 16-40 and 69*-71* contain models and product samples.
Access to Box 60, which contains deteriorated black-and-white negatives, is restricted.
Box 1, 64*
Massachusetts School of Art,
1928-1934
Scope and Content Note
Includes a perspective project and an anatomy project. Projects were probably completed while Huxtable was a design student.
Some work has professors' comments. Includes drawings and notes.
Unidentified early projects,
1933-1940
Scope and Content Note
Includes work that was possibly completed in the studios of J. Albert Cavanagh or Egmont Arens.
Box 1, Folder 4-5
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Contains drawings and black-and-white photographs.
Flatfile 1**
Large drawings
Scope and Content Note
Contains blueprints.
Box 1, Folder 6-8
New York World's Fair, General Motors pavilion,
1939
Scope and Content Note
The Futurama exhibition space. For Norman Bel Geddes & Company. Includes clipping and black-and-white photographs.
Box 1, Folder 9
Frigidaire,
1939-1945
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed a refrigerator for the Design Styling Section of General Motors. Includes drawings.
Flatfile 2**
Norman Bel Geddes & Company offices,
1939
Scope and Content Note
Designs are for Geddes' office space in Rockefeller Center. Includes blueprints.
Box 1, 61*
Constance Spry Incorporated,
1941
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed gardening tools. Includes sketches and material sample.
Box 1, 55
Higgins Ink Company,
1942
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable deisgned ink bottles for the office of Egmont Arens. Includes clippings, black-and white photograph and negative.
Sperry Gyroscope Company,
1942-1945
Scope and Content Note
Contains designs for Nassau plant.
Box 1, 68*
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes clipping and rendering.
Flatfile 3**-4**
Large drawings
Scope and Content Note
Includes blueprints.
Box 76**
Rolled drawings
Scope and Content Note
Blueprints.
Box 1, 55, 60
Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation,
1945-1949
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed the New Jersey laboratories and transmitter cabinets. Includes black-and-white photographs, black-and-white
negatives and color slides.
Box 1, Folder 15
Chesapeake Ohio Railroad passenger and sleeper units,
circa 1946
Scope and Content Note
For the office of Benjamin Webster. Includes drawings and black-and-white photographs.
Box 1, Folder 16
Cottage,
circa 1946
Scope and Content Note
For the office of Benjamin Webster.
Flatfile 5**
Iron,
1946
Scope and Content Note
Probably for the office of Benjamin Webster. Includes sketches.
Flatfile 6**
Commonwealth Edison Building,
1947
Scope and Content Note
For Norman Bel Geddes & Company. Includes blueprints.
Console cigarette machine,
1947
Scope and Content Note
For Rowe Manufacturing Company, from the office of Norman Bel Geddes & Company.
Box 2, Folder 1
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes sketch and rendering.
Flatfile 7**
Large drawing
Scope and Content Note
Blueprint.
Box 61*, Folder 2
Isaac P. Miller memorial,
1947
Scope and Content Note
Possibly for the office of Norman Bel Geddes & Company.
Millers Falls Company,
1948-1978
Scope and Content Note
A division of Ingersoll-Rand Tool Companies.
Box 2, Folder 2
Roy E. Parker Associates
Scope and Content Note
A manufacturing agent for Millers Falls. Huxtable designed the letterhead. Includes letter, drawings and proofs.
Box 2, 16
Frost Cut knife
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed the knife, packaging, and logo. Includes correspondence, sketches, drawings, rendering, photographs, models
and product samples.
Box 2, 17
Craftsman glass cutter
Scope and Content Note
For Sears Roebuck & Company and Millers Falls. Includes clippings, renderings, black-and-white photographs, models and product
samples.
Box 2, 18
Utility knife
Scope and Content Note
Includes renderings, black-and-white photographs, models and product samples.
Box 2, Folder 7
Putty knives and scrapers
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, sketches and drawings.
Box 2, 19-23, 69*
Drills
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed electric drills and an automatic drill. Huxtable's design of Millers Falls aluminum electric drill no. 1814
was awarded the silver medal at the Triennale di Milano in 1954. The award certificate is filed in Series III. Includes project
descriptions, letter, sketches, rendering, drawings, black-and-white photographs, models and product samples.
Box 2, 24-25
Saws
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed a circular saw, keyhole saw, hacksaw and jig saw. Includes project descriptions, renderings, sketch, black-and-white
photographs, and product samples.
Box 2, 70*
Planes
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed the Plane-R-file which won the silver medal in the 1957 Triennale di Milano. The award certificate is filed
in Series III. Includes project descriptions, black-and-white photographs, and models.
Box 2, 23, 26-28, 71*
Other tools
Scope and Content Note
Includes other Millers Falls tools and parts as well as tools by other companies. Tools from other companies were possibly
used in researching Huxtable's Millers Falls designs or perhaps they were tools he used in his workshop for general production.
Also includes project descriptions, renderings, drawings, black-and-white photographs, models and product samples.
Box 3, Folder 1-2
Trademark and packaging
Scope and Content Note
Includes sketches, drawings, proofs and black-and-white photographs. Also includes trademark design ideas for Ingersoll Rand.
Box 3-4, 72*
Other documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, patent papers, publicity materials, advertisements, as well as drawing, and renderings for all tool
types.
Box 55, 60
Black-and-white negatives and color slides
United Nations,
1949-1952
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable worked at the United Nations Headquarters Planning Office in New York.
Box 5, Folder 1
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Black-and-white photographs, sketch, clipping, rendering, project description.
Box 5, 55, 60
Christmas trim,
1952-1959
Scope and Content Note
For Paper Novelty Manufacturing Company. Includes correspondence, project description, drawings, National Variety Packaging
Competition press release, black-and-white photographs, color slides and black-and-white negative. Huxtable's Christmas Icicles
packaging design won the 18th National Variety Packaging Competition, Seasonal Goods division. The award certificate is filed
in Series III.
Box 5, Folder 4
Scott Paper Company,
1952
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable submitted designs for a single roll tissue fixture. Includes correspondence and drawings.
Box 5, Folder 5
Text for the Museum of Modern Art,
1953-1963
Scope and Content Note
Includes text design pieces by Huxtable and other MOMA ephemera that was probably not designed by Huxtable.
United States Army, Quartermaster Corps.,
1953-1958
Scope and Content Note
For the office of Egmont Arens. Huxtable designed a refrigeration locking device, ski harness release and protective headgear.
Box 5, 29
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes sketches, drawings, research reports, patent paperwork, and models.
Box 5-6, 55
Lunt Silversmiths,
1954-1970
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed sterling silver flatware. Includes clippings, correspondence, project descriptions, a black-and-white photographs,
sketches, drawings, renderings, color slides and black-and-white negative. Also includes note from Ada Louise Huxtable discussing
the design process.
Box 6, 55, 61*
Clyde Cutlery,
1955-1956
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed a knife and snack spatula as well as their logos and packaging. Includes correspondence, notes, sketches,
renderings, drawings and proofs.
Box 7, Folder 1-2
Thayer Inc.,
1955-1956
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed cribs. Includes a letter and renderings.
Box 7, 61*
International Business Machines,
1956
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed an airlines reservation system. Includes sketches and notes.
Box 7, 55, 61*
Kamkap,
1956-1957
Scope and Content Note
Designs for Magic Spit and Adapktable. Includes notes, sketches, proofs and color slides.
Box 7, 61*
The Museum in the United States,
1956
Scope and Content Note
For the American Federation of Arts. The exhibition was designed with Ada Louise Huxtable. Includes proofs and sketches.
Box 7, 55
General Electric packaging,
1956-1957
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed packaging for a heating pad. Includes black-and-white photographs and color slides.
Box 7, 55, 68*
"Green Stamp" Town,
circa 1957-1959
Scope and Content Note
For Sperry & Hutchison. Huxtable designed the model town with Ada Louise Huxtable. Includes black-and-white photographs, clippings,
and color slides.
Box 7, 68*
Velocipede,
1957-1964
Scope and Content Note
For Hedstrom Union Company. Includes a black-and-white photograph, catalog and drawings.
Box 68*, Folder 4-5
Wardrobe cabinets,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
Prefabricated modular institutional furniture, for Proctor Furniture Company with specific designs for Georgia Institute of
Technology, Illinois State University and Wentworth Military Academy. Includes drawings.
Four Seasons Restaurant,
1958-2012
Scope and Content Note
For Restaurant Associates. A service was designed with Ada Louise Huxtable. It included china, glassware, serving pieces,
service wagons and special services pieces. The Huxtables' wooden tray, glassware and ashtray designs were commercially available
through Restaurants Associates.
Box 8-9, 30, 55, 73*-74*
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, notes, project descriptions, silver serving pan sample product, drawings, black-and-white photographs,
color slides and photograph, and publicity materials. See Restaurant Associates for additional correspondence.
Box 9, 56, 68*
Kellogg Brush Manufacturing Company,
1958-1967
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed a line of domestic brushes. Includes correspondence, black-and-white photographs, color slides and a black-and-white
negative.
Box 11, 64*
Playground equipment,
1958-1964
Scope and Content Note
For Hedstrom Union Company. Includes catalogs.
Box 9, Folder 8-9
Restaurant Associates,
1958-1968
Scope and Content Note
Contains the bulk of Huxtable's invoicing and correspondence for Restaurant Associates projects including Four Seasons, Caratina,
La Fonda del Sol, Brasserie, Tower Suite, Zum Zum and the Newark Airport coffee shop. Also includes Restaurant Associates
catalogs and clippings.
Baum Residence,
1959-1960
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed cabinetry and tables. Includes letters and drawings.
Box 9, Folder 11
Caratina,
1959
Scope and Content Note
For Restaurant Associates. Huxtable designed food-catering truck. Includes notes, research and sketches.
Box 9, 56, 61*
Hedstrom Union Company,
1959-1973
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed children's furniture. Some designs are for the Oak Hill line. Includes correspondence, catalogs and a color
slide.
Box 9-10, 56, 65*
I. Freeman & Son Inc.,
1959-1961
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed silver hollowware, coffee service and a candelabra. Includes correspondence, project descriptions, sketches,
drawings and color slides.
La Fonda del Sol Restaurant,
1959-1965
Scope and Content Note
For Restaurant Associates. Includes drawings by Alexander Girard.
Box 10, 56, 68*
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes notes, research, clippings, drawings, color photographs and slides.
Box 10, Folder 4
Robinson Technical Products Inc.,
1959-1965
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed plastic food service for Western, Continental, Capital and American airlines. Includes correspondence.
Box 10, 75*
Service wagon,
1959-1960
Scope and Content Note
For S. Blickman Company. Includes correspondence and drawings.
Box 10, 31, 61*
Unidentified chair project,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs, project description, sketches, drawings and model.
Box 10, 75*
Tower Suite,
1960-1962
Scope and Content Note
For Restaurant Associates. Includes notes, research, sketches and drawings.
Box 10, 32-36, 56, 59, 61*
Brasserie Restaurant,
1961-1962
Scope and Content Note
For Restaurant Associates. In addition to his designs for the restaurant, Huxtable also designed commercially available casseroles
and pans. Includes material sample, drawings, a black-and-white photograph and negative, color photographs and product samples.
Box 10, 37-38, 56, 64*
Inca Pisco,
1961-1967
Scope and Content Note
For McKesson & Robbins International. Huxtable designed the bottle and packaging. Includes correspondence, research, color
samples, drawings, proofs, packaging samples, a black-and-white negative and photographs, color slides and product samples.
Luana,
1961-1965
Scope and Content Note
For McKesson & Robbins International. Huxtable designed the bottle and packaging.
Box 11, 56, 59, 62*
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white negatives and photographs, color slides and a color photograph, correspondence, project descriptions,
drawings and proofs.
Box 11, 75*
Totliner,
1961-1964
Scope and Content Note
For Hedstrom Union Company. Huxtable designed a stroller. Includes correspondence, black-and-white photographs and catalog.
Box 11, Folder 6
Philadelphia Handle Company,
1962
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed a handle and an ice bucket. Includes correspondence and sketches.
Box 11, 64*
Zum Zum,
1962-1964
Scope and Content Note
For Restaurant Associates. Huxtable designed a soup cauldron. Includes notes and sketches.
Box 11, 64*
Brody residences,
1963-1964
Scope and Content Note
200 Central Park South and 920 Park Avenue. Huxtable designed lighting and cabinetry for the residences. Includes correspondence,
research and plans.
Box 11, 64*
Federal Pavilion exhibition,
1963
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed a proposal for
The Land, an exhibition for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Includes correspondence and project descriptions.
Metropolitan Opera Cafe,
1963-1972
Scope and Content Note
In collaboration with Harrison and Abramovitz Architects.
Box 11, 75*
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes project description, correspondence, clippings, notes, research, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.
Box 11, 75*
Pan Am Building cart,
1963
Scope and Content Note
For Restaurant Associates. Includes proposal, sketches and drawings.
Lewis Residence,
1964
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed alterations to the kitchen and bathroom.
Box 11, Folder 15
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes notes, sketches and a plan.
Flatfile 17**
Large drawings
Scope and Content Note
Includes plans.
Sterling Farm Restaurant,
1965
Scope and Content Note
For National Food Management Service, Inc. Huxtable designed the dining room for the Sterling Gardens International Pavilion.
Box 11, 75*
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes sketches and drawings.
Box 12, Folder 1
McCormick & Company Inc.,
1966-1967
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed an institutional spice rack. Includes correspondence and sketches.
Box 56, Folder 8
Newark Airport,
1966
Scope and Content Note
For Restaurant Associates. Huxtable designed the employee snack bar, cafe bar and coffee shop. Includes color slides.
Box 12, 75*
L'Étoile Restaurant,
1967
Scope and Content Note
For Brody Corporation. Includes correspondence, research and sketches.
Box 12, 62*
Fordyce Hamby & Kennerly,
1967-1969
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed letterhead and brochures for the architectural office and text for the Sallie Franklin Cheatham Memorial
Garden. Firm name was later changed to Hamby Kennerly Slomanson. Includes correspondence, samples, proofs and drawings.
Box 12-13, 56, 66*
Libbey,
1967-1977
Scope and Content Note
A division of Owens-Illinois. Huxtable designs include soda fountain glassware, stemware, an ashtray and a glassware caddy.
Box 12-13, 56, 66*
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, research, notes, catalogs and publicity materials, sketches, drawings, color slides and black-and-white
photographs.
Box 13, Folder 5
Martin's V.V.O.,
1967
Scope and Content Note
For McKesson & Robbins International. Huxtable designed label. Includes proofs, sketches and clipping.
Metropolitan Life Insurance,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed the hospitality room.
Box 13, 56
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes color slide, sketches, notes and correspondence.
Box 13-14, 62*
State University of New York College at Plattsburgh,
1967-1969
Scope and Content Note
For Fordyce Hamby & Kennerly. Huxtable designed directional signage and institutional graphics related to campus architecture.
Includes correspondence, notes, sketches, research, proofs and drawings.
Box 14, 75*
Huxtable Residence,
1968-1978
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable made designs for his and Ada Louise's Manhattan home. Includes letters and drawings.
Box 14, 56, 63*
KGH Corporation,
1968
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed and developed corporate identity materials and promotional brochures. Includes letters, project description,
drawings, proofs, color slides and photograph.
Box 14, Folder 7-8
Max O. Urban Associates,
1969-1970
Scope and Content Note
Design and development of letterhead and brochure. Includes letters, notes, research and sketches.
Box 14, 75*
Metropolitan Transit Authority,
1970-1971
Scope and Content Note
For Johnson & Burgee. Huxtable designed a subway change booth unit. Includes correspondence, color samples, a photograph,
notes and sketches.
Box 15, Folder 1
Unidentified lighting fixture,
1970-1972
Scope and Content Note
Includes model, correspondence, notes and sketches. Possibly related to or inspired by the Metropolitan Opera Cafe project.
Wham-O,
1970-1972
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable submitted designs for a dog droppings scoop, novelty alarm clock, shower curtain and a continuous-use soap cake.
Huxtable also submitted the soap cake design to Lever Brothers.
Box 15, Folder 2
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, notes and sketches.
Box 39
Model for continuous use soap cake
World Trade Center, Sky Lobby,
1970-1972
Scope and Content Note
For Port of New York Authority.
Box 15, 56
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes color photographs and slides, notes, sketches and clippings.
Pennsylvania State University, Museum of Art,
1971-1974
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed museum exhibition cases.
Box 15, Folder 5-6
Documentation
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, notes, sketches and drawings.
Box 15, Folder 8
Unidentified cookie dispenser project,
1971
Scope and Content Note
Includes sketches.
Box 15, Folder 9
Unidentified fashion project,
1973-1974
Scope and Content Note
Designs for sportswear. Includes sketches and clippings.
Box 15, Folder 10
Brady Brown Inc.,
1974
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed antacid container packaging. Includes correspondence, sketches, drawings and notes.
Box 63*, Folder 2
Kelpper Residence,
1974
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designed cabinets and shelving.
Box 15, 64*
Gallagher's,
1975-1976
Scope and Content Note
For Brody Corporation. Includes correspondence, sketches and drawings.
Box 15, Folder 12
Stuart, Gunn & Furuta,
1976-1979
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable designs include a watering can and various gardening tools. The line was possibly called Pfizer Gardening tools.
Includes correspondence and drawings. Also includes an invoice regarding the design of frozen pie product packaging.
Box 15, Folder 13
Weingarten Consulting,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable consulted on a project for a potential patent. Includes letters.
Box 15, Folder 14
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts,
1977
Scope and Content Note
For Stuart, Gunn & Furuta. Huxtable designed corporate branding. Includes correspondence, notes and sketches.
Box 15, 40, 64*
Unidentified,
1941-1972, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes parts for a possible light fixture prototype possibly related to the World Trade Center Sky Lobby project.
Series II.
Resource materials,
1913-1976, undated
Physical Description:
4.3 linear feet
(7 boxes, 1 flatfile folder)
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable's resource materials include drafting tools such as rulers, French curves, stencils, templates, calipers and technical
guides. Also included in this series are typography guides that were integral for the design and arrangement of printed text.
Other resource materials in this series are color sample books and subject files that Huxtable compiled on various themes.
Subject files generally comprise clippings and ephemera.
Arrangement note
Resource materials are arranged by type.
Box 41-43
Instruments and supplies,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes rulers, French curves, stencils/templates, inside and outside calipers and dividers.
Box 44-45, 24**
Typographic style guides,
1931-1966, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes some materials from typographic services.
Box 45-46
Color and textile samples,
undated
Box 47, Folder 1
Clippings,
1954-1956
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable clipped pages from publications for their design value.
Box 47, Folder 2
Ephemera,
1954-1968
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable retained various brochures, announcements and publicity materials that he found to have design value.
Subject files,
1913-1976
Scope and Content Note
Files most often include clippings and sometimes include press releases, brochures or other publicity materials.
Box 47, Folder 8-9
Flatware,
1951-1955
Scope and Content Note
Includes Huxtable notes.
Box 47, Folder 10
Various resource materials,
1962, undated
Series III.
Miscellaneous professional and personal papers,
1917-2002
Physical Description:
6.0 linear feet
(10 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Professional papers include work records, writings, portfolio materials and publicity materials such as clippings publicizing
Huxtable's work, and negatives he used for promotional one-sheets. Personal papers include diaries, Huxtable's sketchbook,
paintings and photographs. General personal and business correspondence is also found in this series.
Arrangement note
Miscellaneous professional and personal papers are arranged by topic.
Box 48, Folder 1-3
Correspondence,
1951-1986, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes a large amount of correspondence with Jeffrey Meikle regarding Norman Bel Geddes research, letters soliciting work
opportunities and personal letters. Also included are published letters to the editor of the
New York Times.
Box 48-49
Diaries and calendars,
1951-1989
Box 49, Folder 4
Biographies and curriculum vitae,
1948-1972
Box 49, Folder 5-8
Letterhead and other office documents,
1953-1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes Huxtable's business records.
Box 50, 67*
Presentation folders,
undated
Box 50, 56
Industrial Designer Society of America,
1946-1972
Scope and Content Note
Formerly called Society of Industrial Designers. Includes certificates of membership, black-and-white photographs from unidentified
American Society of Industrial Designers exhibition and color slide. Huxtable designed the 1955 annual meeting announcement.
Box 50, Folder 5-8
Project descriptions,
1955-1963
Scope and Content Note
Includes Huxtable's portfolio containing photographs and images of the Totliner, Millers Falls tools, Post cereal, Christmas
trim, Higgins Inks, United Nations, Federal Telephone and Radio, a memo desk calendar for Egmont Arens, Dayton scales, an
electric hot plate for Benjamin Webster, the Hobart hotel dishwasher for Egmont Arens, and Lunt silverware.
Box 50, Folder 9
Patent investigations,
1922-1958
Scope and Content Note
Other patent paperwork is located in Series I filed under specific project names.
Box 50-51
Writings,
1935-1985
Scope and Content Note
Includes an essay responding to the
New Society article, "The Dilemma of Industrial Design" published in
Art in America; and "Designing the Future," published in the
Christian Science Monitor. Also includes a memo to Egmont Arens reviewing the 1936 New York Boat Show.
Box 51, 56, 63*
Awards, design competitions, exhibitions and conferences,
1953-1960
Scope and Content Note
Includes papers from exhibitions featuring Huxtable's work,
Off the Product Line and
20th Century Design U.S.A.. Awards include the Massachusetts College of Art distinguished alumnus certificate, silver medal diplomas from Triennale
di Milano and the certificate of distinguished achievement for Variety Store Merchandiser Annual Packaging Competition. Also
includes ephemera from design conferences, exhibitions and award programs that Huxtable possibly participated in.
Box 52, 63*
Paintings,
1945-1988
Scope and Content Note
Huxtable painted mostly landscapes, probably views from his Marblehead residence.
Box 52, Folder 4
Clippings,
1931-1982
Scope and Content Note
Includes poetry and cartoons from the
New Yorker and publicity items about Ada Louise Huxtable.
Box 52, Folder 5-6
Norman Bel Geddes & Company,
1939-1941
Scope and Content Note
Includes photographs, publicity materials and office forms.
Box 52-54, 56-58
Assorted photographs,
1936-1978, undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains black-and-white photographs, black-and-white negatives and index to numbered negatives. Includes photographs of the
Huxtable's Marblehead residence. Also includes a wood box that originally housed the bulk of the negatives.
Box 53, Folder 5
Assorted,
1917-1977, undated